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Eugene Agichtein, formerly a postdoc at Microsoft Research, has joined the department as an assistant professor. His research interest includes information management and retrieval, and text mining and information extraction. He received his PhD from Columbia in 2005.

Professor Steve Batterson's book "Pursuit of Genius: Flexner, Einstein, and the Early Faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study" was published by AK Peters. The book recounts the early years of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ (not affiliated with the university). From the dust jacket: "Steve Batterson has mined the Institute's archives to provide a detailed and unvarnished account of the backstage conflicts and intrigue that attended the Institute's growth and determined its future. Those unfamiliar with the Institute will learn how one man's vision shaped a couple's philanthropy and created a haven for scholars in the midst of the Great Depression. Equally, those who have had the privilege of Institute membership will enhance their appreciation of the intellectual leaders who made their own Institute experiences possible. John W. Dawson, Jr., author of Logical Dilemmas: The Life and Work of Kurt Gvdel.

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Mathias Schacht, who earned his PhD in mathematics from the department in 2004, won the 2006 Richard Rado Prize for his dissertation "On the regularity method for hypergraphs".

Presented by the Department of Math & Computer Science and the Emory College Program in Science and Society. Abstract: Salvador Dali was fascinated by science and mathematics. He incorporated mathematical forms and ideas into many of his paintings, for example, "The Fourth Dimension in Corpus Hypercubus" to ordinary geometry. This presentation will describe interaction with Dali over a ten-year period, as described in a recent documentary commemorating the centenary of the artist's birth. Brief bio: Thomas Banchoff is a geometer who has been a professor at Brown University for the past 40 years. He was an undergraduate at the University of Notre Dame and he received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1964. He has taught at Harvard, UCLA, and Yale, and he is currently teaching at the University of Georgia in the mathematics department and in the College of Education. In 1991, he wrote "Beyond the Third Dimension" describing his collaborations with mathematicians, computer scientists, and artists.